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Simple change to next year's Medicare plans: if you accept Medicare you cannot charge any patient more than you charge Medicare.
by mattmcknight 7y ago
Simple change to next year's Medicare plans: if you accept Medicare you cannot charge any patient more than you charge Medicare.
- noelsusman 7y agoSimple way to put most hospitals out of business overnight. Or, more likely, simple way to force hospitals to make drastic cuts to services.
- mattmcknight 7y agoOr Medicare prices rise to be closer to real costs, instead of forcing them to be subsidized by the uninsured.
- hollerith 7y agoThat was tried during the Clinton administration. Result: many doctors dropped all their Medicare patients, making it impractical for Medicare patients to find a doctor to treat certain conditions.
- mattmcknight 7y agoThen Medicare needs to pay a little more for those specialists.